Town Square
Historic old-town square facing the Baroque town hall, with a triton fountain and burghers' houses.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Town Square in Ljubljana follows Gustav Mahler through the winter of eighteen eighty-one, when the future composer was a twenty-one-year-old theatre conductor lodging with a merchant family across from the Town Hall. It touches the operetta stages where he learned his craft and the evenings out that kept a provincial company busy. Best heard with your back to the Town Hall, facing the houses opposite.
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